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What Is a Good Fundraising Efficiency Ratio?

Neon CRM

What’s a fundraising efficiency ratio? And what’s a “good” ratio to try to maintain? Your efficiency ratio measures the amount of money you spend on fundraising against the amount of revenue generated by those activities. Read on for insight into why this metric is important and how to calculate it.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. industry benchmarks.

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A Lesson on Budgeting from the Blackbaud Management Team

Connection Cafe

Each year you should be evaluating your Annual Operating Plan , reviewing metrics and benchmarks, and determining the ratios and drivers you will use to determine the most effective areas to which to allocate your resources and capital to achieve the optimal return on investment.

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A Fundraiser’s Secret Weapon: Data Analytics

Connection Cafe

Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. The reality is that I collaborate with strong partners on data and the associated analytics then spend the time needed to understand and evaluate our fundraising programs at Project HOPE.